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    ARMENIAN DIASPORA HAILS SENATE'S APPROVAL

    Today's Zaman
    Jan 24 2012
    Turkey

    Although Monday's French Senate approval of a genocide denial bill
    left Turkey fuming, the same vote won praise from the Armenian diaspora
    as well as from Yerevan, which hailed the decision as one that should
    be written in gold in history.

    Alexis Govciyan, national president of the Council of Coordination
    of Armenian Organizations in France, stated that the law that would
    protect "the memory of the victims of the genocide and the dignity
    of their descendants like us will be respected," after the bill was
    voted on Monday evening, AP reported. A similar reaction came from
    Yerevan following the Senate vote, with Armenian Minister of Foreign
    Affairs Edward Nalbandian saying: "This day will be written in gold;
    not only in the history of friendship between the Armenian and French
    peoples, but also in the annals of the history of the protection of
    human rights." Armenia hailed the Senate vote, which came a decade
    after France officially recognized the deaths of Armenians in 1915
    as genocide and constituted one more step towards making it a crime
    to say otherwise, blocking the possibility for a Turkish argument to
    debate the issue.

    Members of the Armenian diaspora all over the world are readying for
    the centennial of the "Armenian genocide" in 2015, lobbying in third
    country parliaments to pass genocide recognition and denial laws.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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